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no matter where you go, there you are

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Possivelmente minha nova imagem preferida na Internet. Uma fonte de alegria indescritível. Piu piu

[margareth⁷ 𝜗ৎ | viu o bts @jiminfadiinha]

ai jesus me ajuda

[don hertzfeldt @donhertzfeldt]

through a special partnership with our friends at vimeo, we're pleased to be able to share "paper trail" with you online, for free, for a limited time ❤

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@coproduto Toda vez que vejo esse anúncio fico deprimido porque lembro do adágio do the last psychiatrist

"If you see it, it's for you"

[sydney @demiurgently]

type of stuff the Talking Heads song is saying in the background while youre in the car trying to break up with your college boyfriend of 3 months on the way to his parents house

[QuoProQuid @TNOQuoProQuid]

fuuuuuck.... they're doing a second act ironic reprise of my "i want" song. they're twisting the lyrics around to take on a new, crueler meaning. they're shifting my leitmotif into a different key. they got my ass.

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think about this maybe at least once a week

[Rom @QasiKid]

my neighbor who suffers from severe schizophrenia just rang my doorbell and asked me if i wanted to see "the dead bear on her living room floor". thinking she's having an episode and is frightened, i enter her apartment, and lo and behold: a fucking bear‼️

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@rdpinder

[owen cyclops @owenbroadcast]

in one of his essays gary larson (who drew the far side) describes a time when a newspaper editor tried to get him to make ‘the far side’ as a comic strip, rather than a single panel comic.

comic strips have characters, and are thus more marketable. they also fit on the page better. but, he said no. in his estimation, the comic strip format is about “wit”. things happen back and forth, and then there’s a final “joke”. it’s “witty”.

he contrasted this to the single panel strip, which he said just depicts a sense of humor. his work is the perfect example of this. what people like about the far side appears to be that it’s really one guy’s bizarre sense of humor that just instantly comes through the comics. each comic is a joke obviously, but it’s not a joke you could port onto a stage (usually) - like many comic strip jokes. it’s like reaching into a strange garden and taking out one plant. then another. then another.

i often think about the contrast he painted. comic strips are “wit”, single panels are “a sense of humor”.

likewise, jim davis (illustrator of garfield) said in one interview, “people don’t laugh at comic strips because they’re funny, they laugh at them because they’re true”. (jim davis and charles shultz did cross paths, supposedly shultz is the one who had the idea for garfield to stand on his hind legs and initially sketched it out - previously, davis had him sitting and walking like a cat.)

i believe these two observations, together, explain the general darkness of schultz’s work. i do not agree with the below characterization that his “late game” work is especially dark. it starts kind of sad and with a very particular view of life right at the beginning, and that runs all the way through it.

if you look at and read the first five years of peanuts, it’s already there at full blast. i think it took five years for him to have a year where no new characters enter or disappear - so, even in its nascent and chaotic formative state, you can see a particular view of life come through strongly.

his work is great, he’s probably the pre-eminent cartoonist for the twentieth century, so this isn’t about that. but, the universe in there is often very sad.

one axis mundi of the peanuts universe is that sometimes things just don’t work out. of course, that’s true - but it’s a central pillar around which the work operates. if jim davis is correct that comic strips are funny to people when they’re true (to them), we can obviously see that this was a large part of charles schultz’s view of life: it was apparently true for him (ironically, it was not true professionally or artistically).

i think peanuts is a challenge for illustrators who are into comics because the actual content is not what people think of when they think of peanuts. people think of garfield, and imagine “yeah - garfield hates mondays and loves lasagna”, and, that’s correct. that’s really what’s on the page.

that is not the case with peanuts. people imagine the animated specials. the comics aren’t like that at all.

my favorite show is ‘king of the hill’. i was working with a guy once, and mentioned this, and he said: i just don’t get it, is it supposed to be funny?

and, i thought that perfectly captured it. king of the hill isn’t funny like there are “jokes”, it’s just kind of funny because of the situation. it’s like a generally humorous environment. the worldview comes through indirectly.

peanuts is like this. each strip isn’t “a joke”, exactly. it’s more that schultz created a universe that he found funny.

but, it’s pessimistic. i would almost say thats its defining quality. the classic literary conflicts (man vs nature, man vs society, etc.) are generally lost by the main characters. this makes it closer to modern literature than most other comic strips.

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Monitoring the situation

[Cohen is a ghost @skullmandible]

gossip from sources in R senate campaigns, lots of blame but one theme emerging: the Million Charlie Kirks were a catastrophe. half of them hatched "unsouled" and slid sideways into hell before they could vote; the rest were "webs of blood and tooth" who largely went third-party

[the giant @chaser_bait]

when he signed the civil rights act, lbj famously told his press secretary bill moyers “we may have lost the south for your lifetime—and mine” and my brother pointed out bill moyers died last year.

[alex 🐀 @tinysnekcomics]

instead of spending election day doomscrolling or endlessly refreshing vote counts, i have a treat: a new and improved political compass for 2026, ranking politicians and important figures on the only dimensions that truly matter

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@sailorbrazil Acho que o trump é pior que os bolsonaros e os democratas são melhores que o PT, mas acho que é sempre ok nao votar e acho insuportável encher o saco de quem nao votou em quem a gente gosta

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@sailorbrazil Outro dia eu sonhei que começava a ver the blacklist por causa dele e acordei muito muito triste

Boston legal vale a pena tho e ele ta bem na temporada de The Office que ele faz

[garfieldbot @robertlasagna1]

all the star wars posting is exactly what I said yesterday, it's just "plot explained" youtube videos, where you restate the plot. there's no fresh thought or ideas, and you are fooling yourself if you think otherwise. it all serves the same purpose, which is nostalgic re-experiencing of the story, from an imagined 3rd person viewer.

many things on the internet function like this: it is suppesedly critical or intellectual, but this is just a cover for its real psychological mechanism, which is, for the reader (who flatters himself engaging with it at an intellectual-ironic level), is actually the real target, he enjoys it in a visceral, direct way. only, he does so by imagining *someone else* engaging with the Thing, and enjoying the Thing through that proxy. "The Audience" "other people on twitter" "The Left" "Fanboys" "Normies" "Enemy Other".

Someone is not in on the joke, we are playing a trick on them. in this case it has something to do with shame and cultural expectations, and the only real "cultural" effect of star wars posting is not "winning the midterms" or "taking star wars back" or anything like that, it is only the first tiny step in processing the internal conflict inside the individual himself, that we are 35 year old men and we're embarrased and ashamed of the childish nostalgic memories we have.

KOTOR 2 made me the man I am, Chris Avellone awoke me from my dogmatic slumber, playing a retarded video game made me a philosopher and an artist, I would have been an accountant if I had never touched Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2. but star wars is also kid stuff and its not high art, not even the movies. it's pulp, crass, horoscope level. its crass and dumb and small. but it's okay that part of you will always have a nostalgic affection for it. it's not actually an affection for Star Wars, or video games, or even Chris Avellone. it's a memory of yourself, of who you were when you bathed in that river. and if you can love that little boy, and not be filled with self hatred and shame, then you can go through life without saying embarrasing stuff like "ironic trolling on twitter about deconstructing and re-interpreting star wars is going to meaningfully influence an election"

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@sailorbrazil Se bobear vai estar no lula 4

Meu ídolo

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@sailorbrazil Kk é foda a esquerda que nao é governo (jones Manoel, comunistas) tambem defende dar dinheiro pra empresário e matar gente aleatória, acho que a gente tem de fazer as pazes com fato de que esquerda é isso mesmo

(A única saida é apoiar o único politico gay Henrique meirelles)